If you picture a bee, you probably imagine yellow and brown stripes without thinking twice. The northern blue-banded bee breaks that expectation the moment you notice it. Its abdomen flashes vivid ...

Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an "ultra-rare" metallic blue bee that hadn't been spotted in years – so long that experts weren't sure it still existed. A researcher at the Florida Museum of ...

An extremely rare blue bee that was last seen four years ago has been rediscovered by a researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The metallic navy insect, a blue calamintha bee, had only ...